The association between residential area characteristics and mental health outcomes among men and women in Belgium

Table 3 Multilevel regression analyses: association between residential area characteristics and complaints of generalised anxiety among men and women, Belgium 2001-2004

Dependent variables:	Complaints of generalised anxiety
	MEN	WOMEN
	B	B
Intercept	-0.027 ***	-0.004
Contextual effects
Unemployment rate	0.032	0.075
Median area income (in euros)	0.245	1.214
Density	-0.081	0.032
Individual effects
Social support	-0.018 ***	-0.028 ***
Current employment situation (ref.: paid labour)
Retired	0.003	0.003
Disabled	0.091 ***	0.101 ***
Unemployed	0.022 ***	0.022 ***
Househusband/wife	-0.028	-0.011 *
Student and others	0.032 **	0.102
Educational level (ref.: tertiary education)
No diploma or primary education	0.008 *	0.038 ***
Lower secondary	0.009 *	0.017 ***
Higher secondary	-0.001	0.010 ***
Equivalent income of the household (ref.: > 2.500 € )
< 750 €	0.018 **	0.017 *
750 - 1.000 €	0.009	0.013 *
1.000 - 1.500 €	0.002	0.005
1.500 - 2.500 €	-0.002	-0.002
Missing income	-0.008	-0.011 *
Age	-0.002	-0.002
Household type (ref.: couple with child(ren))
Single	-0.001	-0.001
Single with child(ren)	-0.010	0.008
Couple	0.006	0.009 *
Complex household	0.004	0.003

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